The Three Musketeers
About The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan, played by Orrin Johnson, leaves home for Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard and is not taken in at once. He falls in with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, played by Alfred Hollingsworth, Edward Kenny, and Claude N. Mortensen. With them he is pulled into the court's business. Constance Bonacieux is played by Rhea Mitchell. Louise Glaum plays Milady de Winter.
Cast & crew
More about The Three Musketeers
Released at first as D'Artagnan. Charles Swickard directed. Thomas H. Ince produced. Clyde De Vinna photographed it. Triangle released it on February 6, 1916. It runs 63 minutes. Music credits name Victor Schertzinger, Wedgwood Nowell, and Joseph Nurnberger. Dorothy Dalton is in the cast. The source is Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel.
Themes
Background
Dumas's novel had already been filmed in shorter versions. Triangle's 1916 feature, first called D'Artagnan, was Ince's five-reel pass at the same book.
Making
Swickard shot the Dumas plot as a five-reel Triangle feature, with Johnson as the Gascon and Glaum as Milady, rather than as a serial.
Look
Clyde De Vinna photographed the Paris arrival and the court intrigue.
Music
Victor Schertzinger, Wedgwood Nowell, and Joseph Nurnberger are credited with the music.
Preservation
Prints survive. One is at the George Eastman House.
Notes
- The original title on the release was D'Artagnan.
- George Fisher, Harvey Clark, Walt Whitman, and Arthur Maude are also billed.
- A print is at the George Eastman House.
- Ince's Kay-Bee unit made the feature for Triangle.
- Glaum's character is billed as Miladi Winter as well as Milady de Winter.
Scenes
- D'Artagnan reaches Paris and is not enrolled at once.
- He attaches himself to Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
- The four are drawn into the affairs of the court.
Influenced by
- Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers
